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Jane Russell was, in her time, a very famous film star - you may have seen her alongside Marilyn Monroe in the classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, released in 1953.
Jane Russell was, in her time, a very famous film star you may have seen her alongside Marilyn Monroe in the classic “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, released in 1953. She first hit notoriety when she starred in Howard Hughes’ “The Outlaw”, as a sulky, sexy, siren lying on a bed of straw: Hughes, an engineer, had designed a special cantilevered bra to the shape of Jane’s voluptuous figure (although she says in her autobiography that she never actually wore it).
Dara Ó Briain, 48, has revealed he is adopted and has known since an early age
In recent years, the comedian decided to try and track down his birth mother
He said the process was positive but unnecessarily hard due to privacy rules
Dara described the emotional experience of finally finding his birth certificate
He has since met his birth mother, but not his biological siblings due to Covid
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à Briain decided in recent years to search for his birth mother; a process that he describes as largely âpositive, positive, positiveâ. However, many adoptees are currently unable to access birth certificates listing their birth parentsâ names, due to legal obstacles, including a constitutional right to privacy on the part of the parents.
As Leahy points out, under Irish law as it is currently interpreted, the rights of the mother to privacy override the rights of the adopted child to find out who they are.